Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for July 31, 2010

I’m trying to conjure up an image of Scruffy and it’s just not coming. A shepherd with a beagle face and dachshund legs huh? One thought does come to mind….COSMETIC SURGERY!

Americans. We are all illegal immigrants to the Native Americans.

Nationality is about your country, not your physical/ethnic features.

Someday we’ll allllll be the same color. The Cosmic Race. la raza cosmica.

Yeah, in 37,000 years.

I’m pretty sure the kid meant race & was trying to be PC. Surely, she must know what nation she’s from.

True but NOT sad. The more mixed up the merrier, and better.

Hybrid vitality: It’s a GOOD thing!

There’s not really such a thing as an “American face”, in the sense that there are German faces, Italian faces, Russian faces, Korean faces, and so on, but there are definitely American names: Pedro Kowalski, Tiffany Giordano, Brian Zimmerman, Andre Chang…

tedcoop, you’re right that it’ll be a long time before everybody is blended into one beige complexion, but we’re getting very near the point where “mixed race” will become, if not the norm, then at least unremarkable. When every point along the spectrum (not merely along a black/white polarity, obviously) is amply represented, the idea of being “purely” one thing or another will lose significance. Read Dr. Seuss’s “Sneetches” for an example of how this (probably, hopefully) will play out.